Hi everyone, Latest CEF update. I especially want to highlight item III, because it includes something you can do! Twenty members of the “moderate” Republican Tuesday Group have sent a letter (see attached) supporting a bipartisan agreement to raise spending caps and opposing a budget resolution that imposes deeper spending cuts. NDD United is organizing a “thank you” day for tomorrow, July 11, to show support for that message. They have prepared sample letters and tweets for each Member who signed, as well as email addresses for their Legislative Directors and Chiefs of Staff to whom letters can be sent (I usually forgo attachments but have included them in this case). If you live in one of the districts below, please consider sending a letter to your Congressperson in support of their stand: Charlie Dent, 15th PA Elise Stefanik, 21st NY Fred Upton, 6th MI Adam Kinzinger, 16th IL Carlos Curbelo, 26th FL John Katko, 24th NY Tom Reed, 4th TX Ryan Costello, 6th PA Patrick Meehan, 7th PA Jeff Fortenberry, 1st NE Leonard Lance, 7th NJ Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, 27th FL David Valadao, 21st CA Brian Fitzpatrick, 8th PA Frank LoBiondo, 2nd NJ Chris Collins, 27th NY Glenn Thompson, 5th PA Dave Joyce, 14th OH Barbara Comstock, 10th VA Dan Donovan, 11th NY I would not worry about making your adult ed advocacy pitch in these letters — the purpose here is simply to get a big pile of letters to each of these offices that they can count up as supporting their overall approach on the budget. That needs to be the focus, so the letter is put into the right pile, so to speak. Other news: So we’ve been hearing for a while now that the House Labor-HHS-Ed Subcommittee will be marking up its bill this week, and Thursday does seem like the earliest plausible date for that to happen. We’ll see if it does (see item I below). If you are in DC, feel free to come to the Budget Book event on Thursday (item II below). It will be odd timing if it turns out they have the markup later that afternoon… Jeff > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Sheryl Cohen <cohen@cef.org> > Subject: CEF Update: 07.10.17 - Labor-HHS-Ed mark-up, Budget Book event on Thursday, Tuesday Group thank you, PTA advocacy campaign, appropriations markups, CBO rescoring of Trump budget > Date: July 10, 2017 at 11:32:50 AM EDT > To: CEFMembersList <CEFMembersList@americancontinentalgroup.onmicrosoft.com> > > Monday, July 10, 2017 > > > I. House Labor-HHS-Ed mark-up > > · We are hearing that the House Labor-HHS-Ed Subcommittee will be marking up its bill on Thursday afternoon, but it has not been noticed yet. We’ll continue to provide updates on spending levels as we gather more information, and we’ll be monitoring the mark-up and providing analysis throughout the day. > > II. Advocacy > · Reminder – Budget Book event this Thursday – We hope everyone will be able to attend the event on July 13, 10am-noon, in room G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building - the attached flyer includes all the specifics. If you haven’t already, please RSVP to Janet Nice at Nice@cef.org <mailto:Nice@cef.org>. > III. Policy Intelligence and Education News > > · PTA’s #STOPCutsToClassrooms campaign – CEF member the National PTA is running a new campaign to raise public awareness that federal funding for education is an inadequate investment for our children. It dovetails well with CEF’s “5¢ Makes Sense” advocacy campaign to increase education investments to 5% of the federal budget. The PTA is holding funding Fridays in which we are encouraging members to use their social media platforms every Friday from July 7 to Sept 29 to discuss education funding and demand Congress to #STOPCutsToClassrooms and invest more than 2% in federal education programs this next fiscal year. PTA has a Social Media Toolkit <https://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-pta/files/production/public/Advocacy/Social%20Media%20Toolkit%20for%20Funding%20Fridays.pdf>for the three-month campaign, and has more information at PTA.org/STOPCuts <http://www.pta.org/stopcuts>. > · Tuesday Group “thank you” day tomorrow (on Tuesday, of course) – As I wrote in the CEF Update on June 30th, 20 members of the moderate Republican “Tuesday Group” sent a letter (attached) to Speaker Ryan supporting a bipartisan agreement to raise spending caps and opposing a budget resolution that imposes deeper spending cuts, among other items. NDD United is organizing a “thank you” day for tomorrow, July 11, to show support for that message at a time when the House Budget Committee may be getting ready to mark up a budget resolution that cuts nondefense discretionary (NDD) funding even further below the austerity-level sequester cap for the coming fiscal year. NDD United has prepared sample letters and tweets for each Member who signed, as well as email addresses for their Legislative Directors and Chiefs of Staff to whom letters can be sent (all are attached above). > · More Appropriations Committee markups this week – In addition to the Labor-HHS-Education bill mentioned above, three more bills are scheduled for mark-up in the House this week, meaning only the State-Foreign Operations bill will remain to be considered on the House side (the Senate has not started the process yet) if Labor-HHS-Education is marked up this week: > > House Subcommittee markups: > o Transportation-HUD – Tuesday, July 11, 7pm in 2358-A Rayburn HOB > o Interior – Wednesday, July 12, 3:00pm in 2007 Rayburn HOB > o Homeland Security – Wednesday, July 12, 4:30pm in 2008 Rayburn > House Full Committee markup: > o Agriculture, and Energy and Water bills – Wednesday, July 12, 10:30 am in 2359 Rayburn HOB > > The Senate Appropriations Committee is marking up its first fiscal year 2018 funding bill this week. The Military Construction-VA bill will be marked up in the Subcommittee on Wednesday at 2:30pm in 124 Dirksen, and in full Committee on Thursday at 10:30am in 106 Dirksen. > > · CBO re-estimate of the President’s budget due on Thursday – On Thursday at 11am – when we are at CEF’s budget book event! – the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will release its re-estimate of the President’s budget. It is likely that CBO’s estimates of the budgetary impact of some of the mandatory spending proposals, including those for student loan changes, will differ from the Administration’s estimate. (Using the Office of Management and Budget’s estimates, the President’s budget included $143 billion in savings from several proposed changes to student loan programs.) CBO’s estimate will also reflect the Joint Committee on Taxation’s estimates of the tax proposals. Congress uses these scores, and not the Administration’s, in its budget resolution and in legislation. Of course, if the House Budget Committee has marked up a budget resolution by then, its numbers will not be built on these updated estimates of the President’s proposals (if the budget resolution numbers assume enactment of certain of the President’s proposals). > > IV. Events > > · CEF’s July schedule – > > o Thursday, July 13, 10am-noon: Release of CEF’s Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Analysis book, “Education Matters: Investing in America’s Future.” Room G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building (see attached flyer for info and to RSVP). > o Friday, July 21, 9-11 am: CEF meeting (AFSCME, 1625 L ST, NW, 1st floor auditorium). Guest speaker: TBD > o Friday, July 28, 9-11 am: last CEF meeting before the congressional recess (AASCU, 1307 NY Ave, NW). Guest speaker: TBD > > My best, > > Sheryl > > > Sheryl V. Cohen, Executive Director > > > 1800 M Street, NW > Suite 500 South > Washington, DC 20036 > T: 202-327-8125 > cohen@cef.org <mailto:cohen@cef.org> > www.cef.org <http://www.cef.org/> >

Great suggestion Jeff. We will do and something from the coalition would be good as well even if not from district constituents still valuable ! On Jul 10, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org<mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org>> wrote: Hi everyone, Latest CEF update. I especially want to highlight item III, because it includes something you can do! Twenty members of the “moderate” Republican Tuesday Group have sent a letter (see attached) supporting a bipartisan agreement to raise spending caps and opposing a budget resolution that imposes deeper spending cuts. NDD United is organizing a “thank you” day for tomorrow, July 11, to show support for that message. They have prepared sample letters and tweets for each Member who signed, as well as email addresses for their Legislative Directors and Chiefs of Staff to whom letters can be sent (I usually forgo attachments but have included them in this case). If you live in one of the districts below, please consider sending a letter to your Congressperson in support of their stand: Charlie Dent, 15th PA Elise Stefanik, 21st NY Fred Upton, 6th MI Adam Kinzinger, 16th IL Carlos Curbelo, 26th FL John Katko, 24th NY Tom Reed, 4th TX Ryan Costello, 6th PA Patrick Meehan, 7th PA Jeff Fortenberry, 1st NE Leonard Lance, 7th NJ Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, 27th FL David Valadao, 21st CA Brian Fitzpatrick, 8th PA Frank LoBiondo, 2nd NJ Chris Collins, 27th NY Glenn Thompson, 5th PA Dave Joyce, 14th OH Barbara Comstock, 10th VA Dan Donovan, 11th NY I would not worry about making your adult ed advocacy pitch in these letters — the purpose here is simply to get a big pile of letters to each of these offices that they can count up as supporting their overall approach on the budget. That needs to be the focus, so the letter is put into the right pile, so to speak. Other news: So we’ve been hearing for a while now that the House Labor-HHS-Ed Subcommittee will be marking up its bill this week, and Thursday does seem like the earliest plausible date for that to happen. We’ll see if it does (see item I below). If you are in DC, feel free to come to the Budget Book event on Thursday (item II below). It will be odd timing if it turns out they have the markup later that afternoon… Jeff Begin forwarded message: From: Sheryl Cohen <cohen@cef.org<mailto:cohen@cef.org>> Subject: CEF Update: 07.10.17 - Labor-HHS-Ed mark-up, Budget Book event on Thursday, Tuesday Group thank you, PTA advocacy campaign, appropriations markups, CBO rescoring of Trump budget Date: July 10, 2017 at 11:32:50 AM EDT To: CEFMembersList <CEFMembersList@americancontinentalgroup.onmicrosoft.com<mailto:CEFMembersList@americancontinentalgroup.onmicrosoft.com>> Monday, July 10, 2017 I. House Labor-HHS-Ed mark-up • We are hearing that the House Labor-HHS-Ed Subcommittee will be marking up its bill on Thursday afternoon, but it has not been noticed yet. We’ll continue to provide updates on spending levels as we gather more information, and we’ll be monitoring the mark-up and providing analysis throughout the day. II. Advocacy • Reminder – Budget Book event this Thursday – We hope everyone will be able to attend the event on July 13, 10am-noon, in room G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building - the attached flyer includes all the specifics. If you haven’t already, please RSVP to Janet Nice at Nice@cef.org<mailto:Nice@cef.org>. III. Policy Intelligence and Education News • PTA’s #STOPCutsToClassrooms campaign – CEF member the National PTA is running a new campaign to raise public awareness that federal funding for education is an inadequate investment for our children. It dovetails well with CEF’s “5¢ Makes Sense” advocacy campaign to increase education investments to 5% of the federal budget. The PTA is holding funding Fridays in which we are encouraging members to use their social media platforms every Friday from July 7 to Sept 29 to discuss education funding and demand Congress to #STOPCutsToClassrooms and invest more than 2% in federal education programs this next fiscal year. PTA has a Social Media Toolkit<https://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-pta/files/production/public/Advocacy/Social%20Media%20Toolkit%20for%20Funding%20Fridays.pdf>for the three-month campaign, and has more information at PTA.org/STOPCuts<http://www.pta.org/stopcuts>. • Tuesday Group “thank you” day tomorrow (on Tuesday, of course) – As I wrote in the CEF Update on June 30th, 20 members of the moderate Republican “Tuesday Group” sent a letter (attached) to Speaker Ryan supporting a bipartisan agreement to raise spending caps and opposing a budget resolution that imposes deeper spending cuts, among other items. NDD United is organizing a “thank you” day for tomorrow, July 11, to show support for that message at a time when the House Budget Committee may be getting ready to mark up a budget resolution that cuts nondefense discretionary (NDD) funding even further below the austerity-level sequester cap for the coming fiscal year. NDD United has prepared sample letters and tweets for each Member who signed, as well as email addresses for their Legislative Directors and Chiefs of Staff to whom letters can be sent (all are attached above). • More Appropriations Committee markups this week – In addition to the Labor-HHS-Education bill mentioned above, three more bills are scheduled for mark-up in the House this week, meaning only the State-Foreign Operations bill will remain to be considered on the House side (the Senate has not started the process yet) if Labor-HHS-Education is marked up this week: House Subcommittee markups: o Transportation-HUD – Tuesday, July 11, 7pm in 2358-A Rayburn HOB o Interior – Wednesday, July 12, 3:00pm in 2007 Rayburn HOB o Homeland Security – Wednesday, July 12, 4:30pm in 2008 Rayburn House Full Committee markup: o Agriculture, and Energy and Water bills – Wednesday, July 12, 10:30 am in 2359 Rayburn HOB The Senate Appropriations Committee is marking up its first fiscal year 2018 funding bill this week. The Military Construction-VA bill will be marked up in the Subcommittee on Wednesday at 2:30pm in 124 Dirksen, and in full Committee on Thursday at 10:30am in 106 Dirksen. • CBO re-estimate of the President’s budget due on Thursday – On Thursday at 11am – when we are at CEF’s budget book event! – the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will release its re-estimate of the President’s budget. It is likely that CBO’s estimates of the budgetary impact of some of the mandatory spending proposals, including those for student loan changes, will differ from the Administration’s estimate. (Using the Office of Management and Budget’s estimates, the President’s budget included $143 billion in savings from several proposed changes to student loan programs.) CBO’s estimate will also reflect the Joint Committee on Taxation’s estimates of the tax proposals. Congress uses these scores, and not the Administration’s, in its budget resolution and in legislation. Of course, if the House Budget Committee has marked up a budget resolution by then, its numbers will not be built on these updated estimates of the President’s proposals (if the budget resolution numbers assume enactment of certain of the President’s proposals). IV. Events • CEF’s July schedule – o Thursday, July 13, 10am-noon: Release of CEF’s Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Analysis book, “Education Matters: Investing in America’s Future.” Room G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building (see attached flyer for info and to RSVP). o Friday, July 21, 9-11 am: CEF meeting (AFSCME, 1625 L ST, NW, 1st floor auditorium). Guest speaker: TBD o Friday, July 28, 9-11 am: last CEF meeting before the congressional recess (AASCU, 1307 NY Ave, NW). Guest speaker: TBD My best, Sheryl Sheryl V. 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I think a general statement from NCL that praises the letter wouldn’t hurt — but again I think hearing from constituents key. BTW, there is now official notice on the House Labor-HHS-Ed Subcommittee calendar confirming the markup of their bill on Thursday — at 4:30pm. Jeff > On Jul 10, 2017, at 12:56 PM, Peter Waite <pwaite@proliteracy.org> wrote: > > Great suggestion Jeff. We will do and something from the coalition would be good as well even if not from district constituents still valuable ! > > On Jul 10, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.org <mailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org>> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Latest CEF update. I especially want to highlight item III, because it includes something you can do! Twenty members of the “moderate” Republican Tuesday Group have sent a letter (see attached) supporting a bipartisan agreement to raise spending caps and opposing a budget resolution that imposes deeper spending cuts. >> >> NDD United is organizing a “thank you” day for tomorrow, July 11, to show support for that message. They have prepared sample letters and tweets for each Member who signed, as well as email addresses for their Legislative Directors and Chiefs of Staff to whom letters can be sent (I usually forgo attachments but have included them in this case). >> >> If you live in one of the districts below, please consider sending a letter to your Congressperson in support of their stand: >> >> Charlie Dent, 15th PA >> Elise Stefanik, 21st NY >> Fred Upton, 6th MI >> Adam Kinzinger, 16th IL >> Carlos Curbelo, 26th FL >> John Katko, 24th NY >> Tom Reed, 4th TX >> Ryan Costello, 6th PA >> Patrick Meehan, 7th PA >> Jeff Fortenberry, 1st NE >> Leonard Lance, 7th NJ >> Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, 27th FL >> David Valadao, 21st CA >> Brian Fitzpatrick, 8th PA >> Frank LoBiondo, 2nd NJ >> Chris Collins, 27th NY >> Glenn Thompson, 5th PA >> Dave Joyce, 14th OH >> Barbara Comstock, 10th VA >> Dan Donovan, 11th NY >> >> I would not worry about making your adult ed advocacy pitch in these letters — the purpose here is simply to get a big pile of letters to each of these offices that they can count up as supporting their overall approach on the budget. That needs to be the focus, so the letter is put into the right pile, so to speak. >> >> Other news: >> >> So we’ve been hearing for a while now that the House Labor-HHS-Ed Subcommittee will be marking up its bill this week, and Thursday does seem like the earliest plausible date for that to happen. We’ll see if it does (see item I below). >> >> If you are in DC, feel free to come to the Budget Book event on Thursday (item II below). It will be odd timing if it turns out they have the markup later that afternoon… >> >> Jeff >> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>> From: Sheryl Cohen <cohen@cef.org <mailto:cohen@cef.org>> >>> Subject: CEF Update: 07.10.17 - Labor-HHS-Ed mark-up, Budget Book event on Thursday, Tuesday Group thank you, PTA advocacy campaign, appropriations markups, CBO rescoring of Trump budget >>> Date: July 10, 2017 at 11:32:50 AM EDT >>> To: CEFMembersList <CEFMembersList@americancontinentalgroup.onmicrosoft.com <mailto:CEFMembersList@americancontinentalgroup.onmicrosoft.com>> >>> >>> Monday, July 10, 2017 >>> >>> >>> I. House Labor-HHS-Ed mark-up >>> >>> · We are hearing that the House Labor-HHS-Ed Subcommittee will be marking up its bill on Thursday afternoon, but it has not been noticed yet. We’ll continue to provide updates on spending levels as we gather more information, and we’ll be monitoring the mark-up and providing analysis throughout the day. >>> >>> II. Advocacy >>> · Reminder – Budget Book event this Thursday – We hope everyone will be able to attend the event on July 13, 10am-noon, in room G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building - the attached flyer includes all the specifics. If you haven’t already, please RSVP to Janet Nice at Nice@cef.org <mailto:Nice@cef.org>. >>> III. Policy Intelligence and Education News >>> >>> · PTA’s #STOPCutsToClassrooms campaign – CEF member the National PTA is running a new campaign to raise public awareness that federal funding for education is an inadequate investment for our children. It dovetails well with CEF’s “5¢ Makes Sense” advocacy campaign to increase education investments to 5% of the federal budget. The PTA is holding funding Fridays in which we are encouraging members to use their social media platforms every Friday from July 7 to Sept 29 to discuss education funding and demand Congress to #STOPCutsToClassrooms and invest more than 2% in federal education programs this next fiscal year. PTA has a Social Media Toolkit <https://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-pta/files/production/public/Advocacy/Social%20Media%20Toolkit%20for%20Funding%20Fridays.pdf>for the three-month campaign, and has more information at PTA.org/STOPCuts <http://www.pta.org/stopcuts>. >>> · Tuesday Group “thank you” day tomorrow (on Tuesday, of course) – As I wrote in the CEF Update on June 30th, 20 members of the moderate Republican “Tuesday Group” sent a letter (attached) to Speaker Ryan supporting a bipartisan agreement to raise spending caps and opposing a budget resolution that imposes deeper spending cuts, among other items. NDD United is organizing a “thank you” day for tomorrow, July 11, to show support for that message at a time when the House Budget Committee may be getting ready to mark up a budget resolution that cuts nondefense discretionary (NDD) funding even further below the austerity-level sequester cap for the coming fiscal year. NDD United has prepared sample letters and tweets for each Member who signed, as well as email addresses for their Legislative Directors and Chiefs of Staff to whom letters can be sent (all are attached above). >>> · More Appropriations Committee markups this week – In addition to the Labor-HHS-Education bill mentioned above, three more bills are scheduled for mark-up in the House this week, meaning only the State-Foreign Operations bill will remain to be considered on the House side (the Senate has not started the process yet) if Labor-HHS-Education is marked up this week: >>> >>> House Subcommittee markups: >>> o Transportation-HUD – Tuesday, July 11, 7pm in 2358-A Rayburn HOB >>> o Interior – Wednesday, July 12, 3:00pm in 2007 Rayburn HOB >>> o Homeland Security – Wednesday, July 12, 4:30pm in 2008 Rayburn >>> House Full Committee markup: >>> o Agriculture, and Energy and Water bills – Wednesday, July 12, 10:30 am in 2359 Rayburn HOB >>> >>> The Senate Appropriations Committee is marking up its first fiscal year 2018 funding bill this week. The Military Construction-VA bill will be marked up in the Subcommittee on Wednesday at 2:30pm in 124 Dirksen, and in full Committee on Thursday at 10:30am in 106 Dirksen. >>> >>> · CBO re-estimate of the President’s budget due on Thursday – On Thursday at 11am – when we are at CEF’s budget book event! – the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will release its re-estimate of the President’s budget. It is likely that CBO’s estimates of the budgetary impact of some of the mandatory spending proposals, including those for student loan changes, will differ from the Administration’s estimate. (Using the Office of Management and Budget’s estimates, the President’s budget included $143 billion in savings from several proposed changes to student loan programs.) CBO’s estimate will also reflect the Joint Committee on Taxation’s estimates of the tax proposals. Congress uses these scores, and not the Administration’s, in its budget resolution and in legislation. Of course, if the House Budget Committee has marked up a budget resolution by then, its numbers will not be built on these updated estimates of the President’s proposals (if the budget resolution numbers assume enactment of certain of the President’s proposals). >>> >>> IV. Events >>> >>> · CEF’s July schedule – >>> >>> o Thursday, July 13, 10am-noon: Release of CEF’s Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Analysis book, “Education Matters: Investing in America’s Future.” Room G11 Dirksen Senate Office Building (see attached flyer for info and to RSVP). >>> o Friday, July 21, 9-11 am: CEF meeting (AFSCME, 1625 L ST, NW, 1st floor auditorium). Guest speaker: TBD >>> o Friday, July 28, 9-11 am: last CEF meeting before the congressional recess (AASCU, 1307 NY Ave, NW). Guest speaker: TBD >>> >>> My best, >>> >>> Sheryl >>> >>> >>> Sheryl V. Cohen, Executive Director >>> >> <image002.jpg> >>> 1800 M Street, NW >>> Suite 500 South >>> Washington, DC 20036 >>> T: 202-327-8125 >>> cohen@cef.org <mailto:cohen@cef.org> >>> www.cef.org <http://www.cef.org/> >>> >> <Budget Book Release Invitation 7.13.17.pdf> >> <TG_Letter_FY2018_Budget.pdf> >> <DraftLettersALL.DOCX> >> <NDD United Thank You Day Tweets.docx> >> <SignerContactInfo.xlsx> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list >> Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org <mailto:Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org> >> To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org <http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org>_______________________________________________ > National Coalition for Literacy Members mailing list > Members@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org > To unsubscribe: http://lists.national-coalition-literacy.org/mailman/listinfo/members_lists.national-coalition-literacy.org